Antrim Football League Division 1
Con Magees Glenravel 0-11 St Gall’s 1-20
St Galls continued their unbeaten run in Division 1 of All County league when they put Glenravel to the sword in Fr Maginn Park on Sunday with a convincing 1-20 to 0-11 win. Both sides fielded teams depleted due to county commitments at senior and U20 level but with one game already under their belt the Belfast men proved too strong for Glenravel for whom this was their opening game of the season. Ahead by eight points at the halfway mark St Galls were never going to be caught and were good value for their twelve point winning margin.
Slack play in the home team defence gifted St Galls a goal chance when centre half forward Brendan Bradley fisted across goals and his colleague Niall O’Neill fired home from short range to give the visitors the perfect start. Marty Murray followed up shortly after before Daniel McQuillan put over for Glenravel with seven minutes gone but that would prove to be their only score of the opening quarter whilst their opposition tagged on another three points from Daniel Quinn, Colm Walsh and the very impressive Barry McCaffrey to leave St Galls ahead 1-04 to 0-01. Aiden O’Donnell slotted over a free to double the Glensmen’s score but McCaffrey and Quinn again stretched the St Galls lead. Fergus Donaghy popped up for a good score for Glenravel but back came the city men with three unanswered points off the boots of Brendan Bradley and Barry McCaffrey. Sean McKay and Aiden O’Donnell added for Glenravel between which Barry McCaffrey popped up with a nice score to give his side a convincing half time lead of 1-10 to 0-05.
Glenravel needed a good start to the second half and Captain Rian Lennon produced that with two well taken scores and when Aiden O’Donnell’s free went over it reduced the gap to six points but then St Galls wrestled control of the game back and recorded four unanswered points from McCaffrey, Daniel Quinn, Marty Murray and Ruari Wilson to stretch their lead to ten points by the end of the third quarter and effectively seal the game. Both teams traded scores to the end of the game but as a contest it had fizzled out long before referee Richard Leahy called time.
Next up for Con Magees is a tough away encounter with Ahoghill on Thursday Apr 3rd at 7:30pm whilst St Galls need to wait a few more days to Sunday April 6th at 2pm to face Aghagallon at home at the Bog Meadows.
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